Statists only care about liberty if they can use some facet of it to "own" the "other team".
This is because they are- all of them- hypocrites.
The anti-gun governor of Colorado was trying to argue the Second Amendment against those who believe marijuana use should disqualify someone from owning and carrying a weapon. He's right, of course.
Yet, he has signed into "law" a host of anti-gun rules that violate this same part of the Constitution even worse.
And you'll constantly see "conservatives" invoking the Constitution* while saying it doesn't matter that some of the policies and "laws" they seem to love the most directly violate the Constitution and what it allows government to do. (That's where they go after they try to twist the Constitution for their purposes and fail.)
It's as predictable as the phases of the Moon.
Neither side talks about actual liberty much- talking about the Constitution is as close as they usually get. Statists can't think outside the government box, and it shows.
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*The Constitution is illegitimate anyway. Its only use in our time is to point out how hypocritical Constitutional Statists are. That's probably always been the case, as Lysander Spooner observed..
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